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When air cooling isn’t enough Have you ever tried liquid cooling a graphics card? It’s not the most difficult thing in the world, though between the water cooling loop and delicately removing the card’s stock cooling solution, it can be…

Some upgrade scenarios will require physical media Microsoft dropped a bombshell yesterday when it revealed that even Windows pirates will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost, though we have a clarification on that, which we’ll get to in…

A dual headed monitor We don’t need to preach the benefits of a dual-monitor setup to power users — chances are you already know. The downside, of course, is the amount of desk space you have to give up for…

The new wave of Steam Machines The new box from Zotac, dubbed SN970, is a compact PC akin to Alienware’s Alpha, except a little bigger. The following are its specs: “6th” gen Intel CPU: Zotac writes this on its spec…

Radeon and GeForce GPUs in the same PC? When it comes to DirectX 12 we have been cautiously optimistic.Early tests have been promising and we are curious to see what else Microsoft has to say about its API. However, it appears…

Pi 2 sells 500,000 units since launch It is hard to believe that the Raspberry Pi has been around for three years already. Launched back in 2012, the credit card-sized PC attracted quite a bit of attention due to its $35 price…

Don’t lose your cool Maintenance free liquid cooling options are all around, and many of them belong to Corsair — the company’s been releasing liquid CPU coolers at a ferocious pace, it seems. In fact, Corsair just announced two new chilly…

Reinventing Wi-Fi If nobody ever bothered to reinvent the wheel, we’d all be riding around on four semi-circular stones with uneven surfaces and poor braking performance. Keeping that in mind, we won’t necessarily dismiss a startup’s attempt to reinvent Wi-Fi…

Two batteries are better than one We love that laptops are getting slimmer, lighter, and overall more portable than ever before (have a look at Michael Dell introducing a new notebook 25 years ago), but if your work (or pleasure) takes…